Document to Dramatizing

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

document, n. (2)

    NMW 4.241 8 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
    MAng1 12.219 12 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but a document or verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].

documents, n. (10)

    Comp 2.93 6 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
    Chr1 3.114 5 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    ShP 4.208 10 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    ET14 5.236 18 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...
    Wth 6.98 10 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...
    Elo1 7.96 18 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
    Supl 10.167 9 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published...
    GSt 10.504 7 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860, as reported in the public documents, is a chapter well worth reading...
    EWI 11.110 10 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    RBur 11.440 24 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

dodder, n. (1)

    QO 8.188 27 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...a mistletoe or dodder among plants,-the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

dodge, v. (8)

    MN 1.216 19 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    Comp 2.105 9 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge...
    SL 2.163 4 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my unseasonable apologies...
    Exp 3.49 18 We look to [death] with a grim satisfaction, saying, There at least is reality that will not dodge us.
    Exp 3.51 24 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account;...
    EPro 11.323 7 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge gravitation.
    MLit 12.328 11 ...that we may not seem to dodge the question which all men ask...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    PPr 12.389 23 [Carlyle] does not dodge the question...

dodges, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.134 5 A gentleman never dodges;...

dodging, adj. (2)

    ET9 5.148 8 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
    F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...into a...dodging animal?

dodging, v. (3)

    ET5 5.78 11 The English game is...a rough tug without trick or dodging...
    EdAd 11.390 19 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by dodging each difficult question...
    CL 12.147 17 [A walk in the woods] is one of the secrets for dodging old age.

Dodington, Bubb, n. (1)

    Aris 10.48 4 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...

Dodona, Greece, n. (1)

    II 12.69 16 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona...in itself...

Doe, Rylstone, The [Willia (1)

    EurB 12.365 15 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems, as for example the Rylstone Doe, might be all improvised.

doer, n. (7)

    Nat 1.60 25 [The soul] is a watcher more than a doer...
    Nat 1.60 26 [The soul]...is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
    F 6.21 11 The doer must suffer, said the Greeks;...
    Wth 6.92 11 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wsp 6.227 16 [As we grow older] We have...an insight which disregards what is done for the eye, and pierces to the doer;...
    Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    PLT 12.30 27 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by the doer.

Doer, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 25 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer.

doers, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.126 11 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    Aris 10.64 4 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.

does, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 12 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles...

doff, v. (1)

    Wom 11.412 5 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./

dog, n. (25)

    SR 2.74 16 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...dog...
    SL 2.142 7 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit.
    Art1 2.356 5 A dog, drawn by a master...satisfies...
    NER 3.257 21 We are afraid...of a dog...
    SwM 4.141 26 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch, skulking like a dog about the outer yards and kennels of creation.
    SwM 4.145 14 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...with dog, with horse, with elephant or with dromedary, all the game that is in nature.
    ET5 5.78 4 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them. The man was like his dog.
    ET9 5.144 7 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.
    Bhr 6.173 5 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
    CbW 6.261 19 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants. Set a dog on him;...
    Ill 6.315 8 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to...cry Hist-a-boy! to every good dog.
    Cour 7.267 20 The dog that scorns to fight, will fight for his master.
    Dem1 10.6 19 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
    Edc1 10.126 25 The trained dog cannot train another dog.
    SovE 10.184 9 Experiment shows that the bird and the dog reason as the hunter does...
    Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    LLNE 10.350 15 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    EzRy 10.393 3 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn, horse, cow, sheep and dog...
    Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
    CPL 11.506 27 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness, coming and going like a dog at our bidding, compensates the quietness...
    PLT 12.31 26 ...a dog has a sense that you have not, to find the track of his master or of a fox...
    CL 12.142 20 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.
    CL 12.161 18 How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and dog...
    CL 12.161 21 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.

dog-breeder, n. (1)

    Cour 7.263 27 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor the dog-breeder by his bloodhound...

dog-cart, n. (2)

    ET16 5.280 21 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-cart...in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    ET16 5.283 21 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...

dog-cheap, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.138 4 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery chapel.

dog-days, n. [dogdays,] (2)

    WD 7.169 25 One author is good for winter, and one for the dog-days.
    CL 12.139 13 If we have coarse days, and dogdays, and white days...we have also yellow days, and crystal days...

doge, n. (2)

    OA 7.322 7 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected doge at eighty-four years...
    OA 7.322 11 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire, which he declined, and died doge at ninety-seven.

doges, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...

dogged, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.261 27 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.

doggerel, n. (1)

    Comc 8.168 25 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./

dogging, v. (1)

    MoL 10.253 6 See a political revolution dogging a book.

dog-hutch, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from.

dogma, n. (23)

    PPh 4.56 21 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.57 4 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
    SwM 4.104 20 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.116 12 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.138 8 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    ET14 5.249 10 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET14 5.251 5 ...if, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture, there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET16 5.287 8 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance...
    F 6.24 2 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.
    Wsp 6.209 10 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Civ 7.26 22 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...
    Farm 7.150 23 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
    Clbs 7.226 23 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...
    SovE 10.208 14 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    SovE 10.210 17 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle]...
    Prch 10.229 6 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
    Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth...
    Plu 10.310 3 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor...
    Carl 10.493 10 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...
    FSLC 11.192 16 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...
    CInt 12.123 22 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong, talent is mistaken for genius, dogma or system for truth.
    Bost 12.203 9 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary ado to establish his dogma;...
    Milt1 12.269 2 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].

dogmas, n. (19)

    AmS 1.89 10 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is...who set out from accepted dogmas...
    DSA 1.139 20 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like the zodiac of Denderah...
    DSA 1.142 19 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
    LE 1.160 21 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    PPh 4.70 11 This faith in the Divinity...and constitutes the ground of all [Plato's] dogmas.
    PNR 4.86 7 Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
    SwM 4.113 12 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas.
    SwM 4.137 17 Under the same theologic cramp, many of [Swedenborg's] dogmas are bound.
    MoS 4.156 23 [The skeptic says] I tire of these hacks of routine, who deny the dogmas.
    MoS 4.182 20 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures...
    Suc 7.301 4 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need;...
    QO 8.180 21 Read in Plato and you shall find Christian dogmas...
    QO 8.181 7 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    Chr2 10.104 26 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Chr2 10.108 19 ...all the dogmas rest on morals...
    MoL 10.255 3 Neither...the laws, the customs or dogmas of nations...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    LLNE 10.327 8 [The new race] rebel against theological as against political dogmas;...
    SlHr 10.447 3 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church;...
    MLit 12.318 5 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent...with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy.

dogmatic, adj. (6)

    LT 1.286 13 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual that is, anything positive, dogmatic, or personal.
    Tran 1.336 3 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of... anything positive, dogmatic, personal.
    NER 3.278 21 [The proposition of depravity] has had a name to live in some dogmatic theology...
    MoS 4.160 21 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    Chr2 10.108 16 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
    WSL 12.338 16 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...

dogmatically, adv. (1)

    Imtl 8.344 8 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.

dogmatism, n. (4)

    LE 1.186 18 Neither dogmatize, nor accept another's dogmatism.
    Cir 2.313 23 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots...
    Int 2.342 7 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will abstain from dogmatism...
    Edc1 10.133 5 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism...I have died to all use of these new events...

dogmatist, n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 2 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.

dogmatize, v. (2)

    LE 1.186 17 Neither dogmatize, nor accept another's dogmatism.
    Comp 2.96 6 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.

dogmatizers, n. (1)

    MoS 4.156 21 [The skeptic says] I weary of these dogmatizers.

dogmatizing, v. (1)

    SwM 4.134 10 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification...

dogs, n. (14)

    Nat 1.50 26 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
    Pt1 3.15 22 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    Pt1 3.36 19 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    Pt1 3.36 20 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    PNR 4.89 27 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort, as people allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
    ET4 5.70 18 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
    ET4 5.71 8 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    ET4 5.71 17 The Englishman associates well with dogs and horses.
    Grts 8.318 16 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him.
    Imtl 8.324 23 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...
    Dem1 10.14 3 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    Wom 11.417 19 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    Mem 12.106 14 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...

dogwood, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.235 19 I ate whatever was set before me [said Benedict]; I touched ivy and dogwood.

doing, n. (5)

    UGM 4.8 10 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
    Grts 8.308 8 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull people.
    Schr 10.267 7 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people. If their doing came to any good end!
    JBB 11.271 21 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision; namely, the doing substantial injustice.
    PLT 12.31 13 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.

doings, n. (11)

    AmS 1.99 18 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    Tran 1.355 27 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    GoW 4.261 3 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    ET1 5.10 18 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    CbW 6.255 17 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
    Ill 6.325 16 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd...whose movement and doings he must obey;...
    Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to conventionalism, to the actual state and doings of men and women.
    Aris 10.32 23 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    HDC 11.40 26 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    JBS 11.276 19 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./
    CL 12.153 2 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?

doled, v. (1)

    AKan 11.257 1 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity;...

doleful, adj. (11)

    SwM 4.142 13 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
    ShP 4.193 5 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ShP 4.219 7 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
    OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.
    Insp 8.270 8 We are very glad...that [the aboriginal man's] doleful experiences were got through with so very long ago.
    Imtl 8.325 17 ...[the Greek] built no more of those doleful mountainous tombs.
    LVB 11.91 25 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    FSLN 11.226 22 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    ACiv 11.297 14 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    FRep 11.526 20 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    Mem 12.104 5 In low or bad company you...withdraw yourelf entirely from all the doleful circumstance, recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...

doll, n. (5)

    Chr1 3.100 15 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
    ET13 5.221 22 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation; their church is a doll;...
    WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...
    PI 8.12 22 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    SovE 10.197 11 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll a dweller in ages...

dollar, n. (30)

    MR 1.249 26 [The Americans] rely on the power of a dollar;...
    SR 2.52 8 ...I grudge the dollar...I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.52 19 ...though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Exp 3.50 25 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...thinks of his dollar?...
    NER 3.265 22 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar...
    ET5 5.92 10 ...every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET7 5.119 15 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    Wth 6.101 21 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason.
    Wth 6.101 27 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Wth 6.102 2 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight.
    Wth 6.102 8 The farmer's dollar is heavy and the clerk's is light and nimble;...
    Wth 6.102 15 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.102 22 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.103 2 A dollar in Florida is not worth a dollar in Massachusetts.
    Wth 6.103 3 A dollar in Florida is not worth a dollar in Massachusetts.
    Wth 6.103 4 A dollar is not value, but representative of value...
    Wth 6.103 5 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...
    Wth 6.103 11 The value of a dollar is, to buy just things;...
    Wth 6.103 12 ...a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world.
    Wth 6.103 14 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Wth 6.103 15 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Wth 6.103 20 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    Wth 6.104 21 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.104 23 The value of a dollar is social...
    DL 7.119 1 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things...they can get for a dollar at any village.
    Boks 7.189 17 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar...
    Edc1 10.129 8 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...
    Schr 10.272 10 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    EzRy 10.391 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew the value of a dollar as well as another man...
    EPro 11.321 24 What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven cents?

dollars, n. (32)

    AmS 1.84 1 The tradesman...is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul is subject to dollars.
    SL 2.136 9 Why should all give dollars?
    SL 2.136 12 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them.
    Exp 3.85 18 It takes a good deal of time...to earn a hundred dollars...
    ET2 5.30 27 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET10 5.163 4 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    ET12 5.205 7 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical, and 1500 dollars not extravagant.
    ET12 5.206 5 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
    Wth 6.103 2 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston], no, not with a mountain of dollars.
    Wth 6.122 22 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    Aris 10.48 22 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    Chr2 10.96 10 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    MoL 10.254 1 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money.
    MMEm 10.418 23 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars?
    MMEm 10.419 22 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity...
    MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned...
    MMEm 10.419 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain...
    HDC 11.78 17 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    HDC 11.82 21 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars.
    FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars.
    AKan 11.262 12 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    EdAd 11.384 16 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    EdAd 11.384 17 A man [in America] who has a hundred dollars to dispose of-a hundred dollars over his bread-is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
    CL 12.145 19 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.

Dollond, John, n. (1)

    Art2 7.41 6 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.

dolls, n. (6)

    SR 2.76 12 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Art1 2.364 26 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Pt1 3.29 8 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    Ctr 6.163 4 Popularity is for dolls.
    PI 8.29 2 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets...
    Wom 11.406 3 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events. Their very dolls are indicative.

Dolly, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 2 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service...

dolorous, adj. (1)

    Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...a dolorous tune to beguile the distemper;...

domain, n. (14)

    Nat 1.35 26 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
    LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain [of conservatism]...who engages our interest.
    Comp 2.124 16 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain.
    Int 2.338 4 ...the artist's copies from experience [are]...always touched and softened by tints from this ideal domain.
    Chr1 3.102 22 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding new powers and honors to his domain...
    MoS 4.171 21 Every superior mind will pass through this domain of equilibration [skepticism]...
    Boks 7.200 8 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew...the cheerful domain of ancient thinking.
    MoL 10.245 27 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    Plu 10.302 10 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch, by right of eminent domain...
    FSLC 11.208 4 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design...the national domain...all join to demand it.
    EdAd 11.384 7 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region, obscure from their numbers and the extent of the domain.
    FRep 11.522 1 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...
    CW 12.173 26 The place where a thoughtful man in the country feels the joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
    Trag 12.405 15 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain...

domains, n. (3)

    ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger.
    Mem 12.104 8 ...Passing sweet are the domains of tender memory/.
    MLit 12.312 10 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...

Dombey and Son [Charles Di (1)

    ET19 5.310 13 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...

dome, n. (12)

    AmS 1.86 16 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
    F 6.9 11 A dome of brow denotes one thing...
    Ctr 6.160 9 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting, the roof and dome buoyant as the sky.
    CbW 6.271 21 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then we come out of our egg-shell existence into the great dome...
    SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We... see the great dome arching over us;...
    Res 8.135 2 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    PPo 8.260 19 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    PPo 8.263 7 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
    MAng1 12.231 17 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's].
    MAng1 12.239 17 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.243 26 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.

Dome, n. (1)

    Hist 2.17 21 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.

Domenica, San, di Fiesole, (1)

    ET1 5.7 2 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor, who lived at San Domenica di Fiesole.

Domenichino, Domenico Zampi (1)

    ET1 5.9 11 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.

domes, n. (2)

    Ill 6.309 11 [In the Mammoth Cave] I saw high domes and bottomless pits;...
    Bost 12.190 26 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

Domesday Book, n. (2)

    ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets, and is indelible as Domesday Book.
    HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...

domestic, adj. (48)

    DSA 1.140 8 Would [the poor preacher] ask contributions for the missions, foreign or domestic?
    MR 1.228 20 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... domestic usages...
    LT 1.269 5 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    LT 1.281 26 Other times have had...a barbarism, domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.
    LT 1.289 16 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    Tran 1.348 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the enterprises...of missions foreign and domestic...
    YA 1.363 16 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.367 3 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts...of gardening, and domestic architecture.
    Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans...
    Lov1 2.169 13 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... pledges him to the domestic and civic relations...
    Prd1 2.227 5 The domestic man...has solaces which others never dream of.
    NER 3.253 21 ...there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    NER 3.256 5 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
    GoW 4.280 12 ...[Goethe's Milhelm Meister] is a poeticized civic and domestic story.
    ET4 5.67 9 The fair Saxon man...domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET4 5.67 17 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes...
    ET4 5.68 6 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
    ET10 5.159 15 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.
    ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.185 4 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead...in convivial and domestic hospitalities.
    Pow 6.77 5 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Ctr 6.136 6 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported...
    CbW 6.266 22 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    CbW 6.267 21 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.
    CbW 6.275 16 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    SS 7.9 22 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    DL 7.107 10 Domestic events are certainly our affair.
    DL 7.108 27 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.
    DL 7.111 10 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation...
    DL 7.113 20 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.117 1 ...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must...put domestic service on another foundation.
    DL 7.133 16 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.
    Clbs 7.242 22 There was a time when in France a revolution occurred in domestic architecture;...
    OA 7.327 15 ...[man] has...aesthetic wants, domestic, civil, humane wants.
    SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    Edc1 10.126 21 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
    Edc1 10.147 22 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of Shakspeare.
    SovE 10.198 11 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    SlHr 10.445 15 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    Thor 10.479 13 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    GSt 10.501 21 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man... happy in his domestic relations,-[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.506 18 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
    FSLN 11.240 3 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
    SMC 11.360 5 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...
    EdAd 11.383 12 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from domestic architecture, chemical agriculture...
    FRep 11.511 20 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds.
    Milt1 12.272 4 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce...
    MLit 12.325 11 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy;...

domestic, n. (2)

    UGM 4.19 9 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    MAng1 12.238 15 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...

domestical, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.216 26 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately.

domesticate, v. (8)

    LE 1.162 6 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...domesticate them...
    Hist 2.28 5 How easily these old worships...of Socrates, domesticate themselves in the mind.
    Art1 2.362 3 I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me...
    ET14 5.254 22 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
    PI 8.20 14 The very design of imagination is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature.
    Insp 8.294 23 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    LVB 11.90 13 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
    PLT 12.14 2 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.

domesticated, v. (9)

    SR 2.81 14 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man is first domesticated...
    Exp 3.63 19 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
    Nat2 3.190 7 We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
    GoW 4.270 10 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...
    Pow 6.59 5 ...when into any old club a new-comer is domesticated,--that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Ctr 6.160 2 When our higher faculties are in activity we are domesticated...
    PerF 10.77 4 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated.
    MMEm 10.432 25 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    MLit 12.323 19 There was never man more domesticated in this world than [Goethe].

domesticates, v. (2)

    PNR 4.86 23 [Plato] domesticates the soul in nature...
    Chr2 10.120 4 [Character]...domesticates itself with strangers and enemies.

domesticating, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.257 8 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.

domestication, n. (5)

    AmS 1.107 20 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    Hist 2.22 24 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    PI 8.72 10 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    PLT 12.59 16 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    PPr 12.390 9 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.

domesticity, n. (2)

    ET6 5.109 3 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET6 5.109 8 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court and camp.

domestics, n. (4)

    MR 1.253 2 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the... alienation of domestics.
    Lov1 2.183 24 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on nurses and domestics...
    Wth 6.114 6 Pride can go without domestics...
    DL 7.105 16 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the domestics, who like rude foster-mothers befriend and feed him...

dominant, adj. (5)

    ET5 5.74 15 The island [England] was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn.
    Wth 6.111 4 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
    Ctr 6.131 10 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...
    PI 8.51 15 Time...is now dominant and sitteth upon a Sphinx...
    FRep 11.528 21 We began well. No inquisition here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church.

domineer, v. (1)

    F 6.32 18 All the bloods [the Saxon race] shall absorb and domineer...

domineering, adj. (1)

    LE 1.186 4 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...

Dominica, n. (1)

    EWI 11.120 3 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...

dominie, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.138 19 ...instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, [your man of genius] is some mad dominie.

Dominies, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 13 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Cuddie Headriggs, Dominies...

dominion, n. (35)

    Nat 1.40 5 [Nature] receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.
    Nat 1.76 15 ...your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's]...
    Nat 1.77 9 The kingdom of man over nature...a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God, - he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.95 19 So much only of life as I know by experience...so far have I extended my being, my dominion.
    LE 1.155 23 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    MR 1.240 10 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
    MR 1.250 5 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is still under the dominion of his own wild thoughts...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    LT 1.286 2 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking, which shall...replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Hist 2.33 8 ...if the man...refuses the dominion of facts...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Hist 2.36 11 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man.
    Comp 2.104 6 The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue;...
    SL 2.145 13 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us.
    Exp 3.52 17 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Pol1 3.205 24 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.214 7 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    UGM 4.18 12 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle, the Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
    NMW 4.228 15 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    ET4 5.46 6 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist, enlarging the dominion of their arts and liberty.
    ET4 5.47 22 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET8 5.134 21 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    F 6.31 4 [Men] are under one dominion here in the house...
    Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Bty 6.302 16 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Elo1 7.98 17 ...in this dominion of chance we find a principle of permanence.
    SA 8.100 9 It is the sense of every human being that man should have this dominion of Nature...
    Dem1 10.22 27 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.
    Aris 10.54 6 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Chr2 10.105 14 The greatest dominion will be to the deepest thought.
    Schr 10.264 10 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity...
    Schr 10.265 25 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last, which will give him at one bound a universal dominion.
    LS 11.15 11 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men...
    War 11.173 17 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles.
    FSLC 11.184 22 Nothing proves...the absence of standard in men's minds, more than the dominion of party.
    MLit 12.320 15 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.
    MLit 12.331 1 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses...

domino, n. (2)

    Ill 6.313 1 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino.
    QO 8.197 23 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again, writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper clothes.

don, n. (1)

    SS 7.4 2 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite...

Don Quixote [M. de Cervant (1)

    Edc1 10.157 27 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.

don, v. (1)

    Aris 10.29 18 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

Donald, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.22 3 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...

Donatello, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.239 13 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration...of Donatello...

donation, n. (4)

    SL 2.163 23 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or a great donation...
    Pol1 3.203 7 ...property passes through donation or inheritance to those who do not create it.
    ET11 5.175 20 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    ACri 12.298 20 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

donations, n. (4)

    Chr1 3.103 27 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    DL 7.131 19 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens...
    GSt 10.503 1 [George Stearns's] first donations were only entering-wedges of his later;...
    Wom 11.424 5 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...

Donatus, Aelius, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 14 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!--from Donatus, he said.

Donne, John, n. (9)

    ShP 4.203 14 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Isaac Walton, Dr. Donne...
    ET14 5.234 1 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne, Bunyan, Milton...wrote it.
    ET14 5.234 17 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; in these writers [Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton] and in Herbert, Henry More, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne.
    ET14 5.238 17 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Browne, Donne, Spenser...
    Boks 7.207 7 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Donne...
    PI 8.53 11 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
    QO 8.195 25 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...like Donne, Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan;...
    Grts 8.317 6 It is noted of some scholars, like Swift and Gibbon and Donne, that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside its own riches?

donor, n. (1)

    Gts 3.163 1 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.

doom, n. (8)

    AmS 1.102 26 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
    PPh 4.53 5 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of the weavers...
    PPh 4.58 19 ...[Plato] hears the doom of the judge...
    SwM 4.137 11 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    F 6.5 10 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf... rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    Bhr 6.167 18 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    Edc1 10.142 11 Why cannot [the solitary man] get the good of his doom...
    LVB 11.90 12 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...

Doom, n. (1)

    PI 8.34 8 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.

doomed, v. (3)

    Pow 6.77 3 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Chr2 10.117 1 ...[Calvinism] is doomed also, and will only die last;...
    Trag 12.409 25 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

dooms, n. (1)

    Grts 8.299 2 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./

dooms, v. (1)

    DSA 1.145 26 The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

doomsday, n. (1)

    ET12 5.204 21 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.

Doomsday, n. (2)

    WD 7.175 21 No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    PPo 8.246 28 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./

doomsdays, n. (1)

    ShP 4.219 9 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us;...

Doons, Bonny, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

door, n. (79)

    Nat 1.75 11 These wonders are brought to our own door.
    DSA 1.135 8 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels...
    LE 1.175 21 ...lock the door;...
    MR 1.229 17 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker...
    Hist 2.29 8 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door...
    SR 2.72 8 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    Comp 2.110 24 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.
    SL 2.144 20 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door...
    Lov1 2.172 22 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...
    Lov1 2.182 14 ...so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true and pure souls.
    Prd1 2.225 19 A door is to be painted, a lock to be repaired.
    OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    Int 2.327 20 God enters by a private door into every individual.
    Int 2.342 5 ...he [in whom the love of repose predominates] shuts the door of truth.
    Pt1 3.33 11 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Pt1 3.40 7 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator, at the door of the assembly, to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    Exp 3.45 8 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.54 22 Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the creator passes.
    Mrs1 3.119 12 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can pass through the roof, and there is no door...
    Mrs1 3.123 23 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    Mrs1 3.134 22 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign...should wait his arrival at the door of his house.
    Mrs1 3.140 13 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
    Mrs1 3.149 27 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the sceptre at the door of the house.
    Gts 3.160 17 ...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.
    Nat2 3.180 7 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...silenced the creaking door...
    MoS 4.167 26 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.
    ShP 4.202 3 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not, whether he held horses at the theatre door...
    GoW 4.280 1 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense. And this passage is not made in any mean or creeping way, but through the hall door.
    ET11 5.187 26 He who keeps the door of a mine...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
    ET14 5.253 12 ...English science puts humanity to the door.
    ET15 5.265 16 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but the door was opened by a mild old woman...
    F 6.6 21 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
    Wth 6.109 10 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Wth 6.123 3 ...the baker doubts he shall never like to drive up to the door;...
    Wsp 6.203 13 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the door.
    Wsp 6.236 13 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
    Ill 6.317 7 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door;...
    Civ 7.24 12 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Art2 7.42 6 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best, as if he were fitting a screw or a door.
    DL 7.114 10 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
    Farm 7.140 14 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...
    Clbs 7.247 27 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door.
    Suc 7.293 26 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Suc 7.295 12 ...it is only as a door into this [central intelligence], that any talent or the knowledge it gives is of value.
    Suc 7.305 21 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    PI 8.58 4 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...
    SA 8.98 8 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    SA 8.98 11 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them...
    Res 8.136 2 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PC 8.211 23 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    PPo 8.245 14 Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts.
    Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    Imtl 8.325 6 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid...
    Imtl 8.351 19 [Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose door is open to Brahma.
    Dem1 10.11 1 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    Dem1 10.25 12 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Edc1 10.128 12 The household is a school of power. Here, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
    Prch 10.230 23 Let [the young preacher] value his talent as a door into Nature.
    Schr 10.269 23 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ. What need has he to cross the sill of his door?
    Plu 10.315 14 Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the door.
    LLNE 10.345 12 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door...
    LLNE 10.346 4 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    LLNE 10.355 27 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...
    EzRy 10.391 7 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
    SlHr 10.438 17 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force, and the carriage was at the door, [Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    TPar 11.289 1 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men. It does not lie at [Theodore Parker's] door.
    ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar...
    SMC 11.348 3 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/
    Wom 11.421 23 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    PLT 12.29 8 In [Nature's] hundred-gated Thebes every chamber is a new door.
    PLT 12.41 26 [Perceptions] are your door to the seven heavens...
    CL 12.143 26 ...you have [in Illinois] the monotony of Holland, and when you step out of the door can see all that you will have seen when you come home.
    CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
    MAng1 12.238 10 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    Milt1 12.260 13 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    Let 12.400 20 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...

door-bar, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.11 26 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

door-bell, n. (1)

    SA 8.85 25 Why have you statues in your hall, but to teach you that, when the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.

door-plates, n. (1)

    ET1 5.3 16 ...our country names were on the door-plates...

door-post, n. (1)

    SR 2.51 27 I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.

doors, n. (62)

    Nat 1.17 25 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
    DSA 1.126 24 ...the doors of the temple stand open...
    SR 2.78 20 For [the self-helping man] all doors are flung wide;...
    SR 2.79 9 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors...
    Comp 2.106 20 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    SL 2.145 9 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate, nor can he take anything else though all doors were open...
    Int 2.333 26 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Pt1 3.26 25 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors...
    Chr1 3.115 6 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Mrs1 3.130 23 [Fashion's] doors unbar instantaneously to a natural claim of their own kind.
    Mrs1 3.149 18 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Gts 3.160 21 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Gts 3.165 11 I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors...
    PPh 4.72 7 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    SwM 4.94 21 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which...opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
    ShP 4.212 2 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's. We are still out of doors.
    NMW 4.233 22 [Napoleon's] victories were only so many doors...
    NMW 4.252 19 [Napoleon] was...the opener of doors and markets...
    NMW 4.258 26 Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open...
    ET6 5.107 12 Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him in doors whenever he is at rest...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET11 5.174 9 English history is aristocracy with the doors open.
    ET11 5.197 8 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open...
    ET12 5.203 18 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...and had the doors locked and sealed by the consul.
    ET18 5.301 18 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations.
    Wth 6.105 26 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice...
    Wth 6.123 23 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...
    Bhr 6.183 11 ...we must not peep and eavesdrop at palace doors.
    Bhr 6.192 9 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face...
    Wsp 6.228 16 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...
    Wsp 6.237 8 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
    Wsp 6.237 12 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
    CbW 6.272 24 How [a friend] flings wide the doors of existence!
    Bty 6.297 11 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton]. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs...
    Ill 6.323 18 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...afraid of heat and cold, and keeping within doors, has any advantage of them.
    Elo1 7.76 2 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...has a talent for speaking. In the debate with open doors, this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    DL 7.104 8 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the light...
    DL 7.106 18 The first ride into the country...the first game out of doors in moonlight...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    WD 7.181 11 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    SA 8.90 21 The delight in good company...doubles the value of life. It is this that justifies to each the jealousy with which the doors are kept.
    Res 8.137 3 We have keys to all doors.
    Insp 8.274 27 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
    Imtl 8.332 2 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    PerF 10.70 4 Go out of doors and get the air.
    PerF 10.84 22 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Chr2 10.121 16 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    Edc1 10.133 14 When I see the doors by which God enters into the mind;... I can expect any revolution in character.
    Prch 10.233 22 ...[inspiration] will be an opener of doors;...
    Plu 10.315 14 Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the door.
    CSC 10.377 4 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations, in the hall, in the lobbies or around the doors.
    MMEm 10.409 5 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    MMEm 10.409 17 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    Carl 10.492 5 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says...I know not what they would have done to anybody that had got in there and attempted to tell out of doors what they did.
    FSLC 11.198 2 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch, nor could they enter our humblest doors.
    SMC 11.364 8 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    FRep 11.541 17 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open.
    PLT 12.28 22 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar...
    II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a blind alley;...
    CInt 12.130 18 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments.
    CL 12.142 4 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.151 14 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the nations out of doors./
    MAng1 12.243 27 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    EurB 12.377 4 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...

doorstep, n. (1)

    MR 1.229 24 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.

door-yards, n. (1)

    SovE 10.198 9 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.

Dorchester Heights, Massach (1)

    HDC 11.79 4 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.

dores, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

Doria, Andrea [Andrew], n. (1)

    Grts 8.308 11 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.

Dorian, adj. (3)

    Con 1.317 2 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Nat2 3.175 5 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology...
    EWI 11.122 22 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race...

Dorian, n. (2)

    Hist 2.19 17 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    FSLC 11.212 26 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a match for a Province. Every Dorian did.

Dorias, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 2 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Dorias, Sforzas... of the old warlike ages!

Doric, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.19 16 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    SR 2.82 22 ...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?
    NER 3.271 22 The Iliad...the Doric column...when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    Art2 7.53 18 The Iliad of Homer...the Doric temples...were made...in grave earnest...
    MMEm 10.421 19 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    RBur 11.442 14 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.
    MLit 12.325 1 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Doric architecture, and the Gothic;...

Dorigen [Beaumont, Triumph (4)

    Hsm1 2.245 21 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Hsm1 2.246 4 My Dorigen,/ Yonder, above, 'bout Ariadne's crown,/ My spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste./
    Hsm1 2.246 7 Dor. Stay, Sophocles,--with this tie up my sight;/...
    Hsm1 2.247 9 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/

dormant, adj. (3)

    Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
    PerF 10.73 17 While the reason is yet dormant, [temperament] rules;...
    Chr2 10.93 19 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong] is dormant...

dormitories, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.351 2 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what dormitories, what reading-rooms...

dormitory, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.

Dorsetshire, England, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.177 1 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.

dory, n. (1)

    CW 12.171 13 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...

dose, n. (2)

    Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.

doses, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.173 13 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;...
    SS 7.13 13 ...the people are to be taken in very small doses.

dot, n. (3)

    UGM 4.30 5 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
    UGM 4.30 11 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it, the black dot has appeared and the detachment has taken place.
    PC 8.225 14 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...

dot, v. (2)

    CL 12.157 13 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about, dibble and dot, and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.
    MLit 12.323 26 [Goethe] thought it necessary to dot round with his own pen the entire sphere of knowables;...

dotage, n. (1)

    LE 1.173 8 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail himself, as if...he was born into the dotage of things;...

dotards, n. (1)

    OA 7.322 1 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...

dote, v. (2)

    Suc 7.292 8 ...we dote on the old and the distant;...
    ALin 11.328 1 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...

doted, v. (1)

    Wom 11.407 22 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...

dotes, v. (1)

    Hsm1. 2.252 9 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.

doting, adj. (3)

    ET6 5.109 15 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    Cour 7.272 12 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians...
    Dem1 10.16 22 This faith in a doting power...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.

dots, n. (1)

    Art1 2.356 18 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.

dotted, v. (1)

    Hist 2.30 4 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.

dotting, v. (1)

    PLT 12.11 24 ...he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...

double, adj. (23)

    Nat 1.25 3 Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple, double, and threefold degree.
    LE 1.180 14 ...Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    Tran 1.353 20 The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    Comp 2.109 13 All things are double, one against another.
    Pt1 3.4 11 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
    Pol1 3.213 18 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...
    PPh 4.70 23 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    SwM 4.145 19 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind...
    ET10 5.156 9 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET14 5.235 18 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    ET16 5.273 5 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
    ET16 5.284 17 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube...
    F 6.47 8 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists; the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness.
    Bty 6.304 14 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.
    Elo1 7.92 11 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events, so as to give the double force of reason and destiny.
    Comc 8.166 19 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Dem1 10.8 2 [Dreams] have a double consciousness, at once sub-and ob-jective.
    HDC 11.65 17 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    TPar 11.292 18 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the corruption of man.
    SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    CL 12.164 8 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact...
    Milt1 12.276 16 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.
    ACri 12.288 5 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...

Double Marriage [Fletcher, (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 13 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,--as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage...

double, n. (1)

    Nat 1.40 15 ...the world becomes at last only a realized will, - the double of the man.

doubled, v. (5)

    Pt1 3.26 20 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Exp 3.78 2 Life will be imaged, but cannot be divided nor doubled.
    Chr1 3.103 4 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you...
    Wth 6.126 20 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled;...
    WD 7.159 13 Why need I speak of steam...which...vies with the forces which upheaved and doubled over the geologic strata?

double-edged, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.304 24 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom,--freedom which is double-edged and dangerous to any but the wise and robust.

doubles, v. (8)

    NER 3.265 4 [One man]...in his natural and momentary associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
    SwM 4.108 7 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...
    ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital...
    SA 8.90 19 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.91 23 ...sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    QO 8.178 11 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    Grts 8.310 24 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration, which doubles its force.
    Mem 12.105 16 ...we understand best what we like; for this doubles our power of attention, and makes it our own.

double-wick, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.87 20 Wealth begins...in a good double-wick lamp...

doubling, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 19 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.

doubling, v. (3)

    OS 2.292 26 [God's presence] is the doubling of the heart itself...
    NER 3.249 4 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
    ET5 5.86 16 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.

doubloons, n. (1)

    Comp 2.94 24 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?

doubly, adv. (4)

    AmS 1.93 6 Every sentence is doubly significant...
    Hsm1 2.247 2 O love! thou doubly hast afflicted me/ With virtue and with beauty..../
    ET19 5.309 22 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    SMC 11.349 2 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day...

doubt, n. (73)

    Nat 1.47 6 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
    Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    AmS 1.115 22 The study of letters shall be no longer a name...for doubt...
    LT 1.284 11 I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any population.
    Tran 1.330 13 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them, and not liable to doubt;...
    Tran 1.355 25 There is, no doubt, a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    Tran 1.356 1 ...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will lay themselves open to criticism and to lampoons...
    SL 2.158 15 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings. beings.
    Prd1 2.239 17 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
    OS 2.288 4 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    Pt1 3.39 16 Most of the things [the poet] says are conventional, no doubt;...
    Exp 3.60 23 Without any shadow of doubt...I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should...do broad justice where we are...
    Nat2 3.182 2 ...no doubt when [the maples and ferns] come to consciousness they too will curse and swear.
    Pol1 3.213 9 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property. Their first endeavors, no doubt, are very awkward.
    NER 3.253 25 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
    NER 3.269 9 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.269 14 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes from scholars...
    PPh 4.41 13 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.60 15 ...[Plato] plays with the doubt, and makes the most of it...
    PPh 4.76 6 ...[Plato's] writings have not,--what is no doubt incident to this regnancy of intellect in his work,--the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    SwM 4.98 15 This man [Swedenborg]...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    MoS 4.173 7 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him.
    MoS 4.180 14 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    ShP 4.203 2 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous...
    NMW 4.233 27 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history...
    NMW 4.244 24 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    ET1 5.13 3 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    ET11 5.175 6 ...I make no doubt that feudal tenure was no sinecure...
    ET11 5.176 21 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
    ET12 5.209 17 No doubt, the foundations have been perverted [in English universities].
    ET12 5.210 1 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    ET12 5.211 4 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    F 6.41 23 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...doubt...
    Ctr 6.147 2 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
    Wsp 6.213 24 ...the enginery at work to draw out these powers [of the senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.
    Civ 7.28 7 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had no carpet-bag...
    Clbs 7.232 5 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
    Clbs 7.248 7 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    Clbs 7.248 16 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact...
    Cour 7.255 23 Animal resistance...is no doubt common;...
    PI 8.69 17 Shakspeare could no doubt have been disagreeable...
    Elo2 8.127 25 The doctor [Charles Chauncy], no doubt...had lost some natural relation to men...
    QO 8.183 19 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    PPo 8.260 2 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    PPo 8.261 8 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Insp 8.281 5 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Edc1 10.151 20 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    SovE 10.201 25 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
    Prch 10.219 13 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
    Plu 10.301 24 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Plu 10.321 15 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
    LLNE 10.338 4 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    LLNE 10.346 22 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism...
    LLNE 10.350 13 ...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.
    LLNE 10.360 26 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.366 11 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    Thor 10.454 12 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.
    Thor 10.474 22 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill...
    HDC 11.61 2 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here...
    EWI 11.140 22 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.
    FSLN 11.218 24 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings;...
    ACiv 11.307 1 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...
    ACiv 11.308 6 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    HCom 11.341 14 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    SMC 11.354 9 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;-the strength is now to be tested by the eternal facts. There will be no doubt more.
    Wom 11.418 6 ...for the general charge [that women are temperamental]: no doubt it is well founded.
    II 12.83 16 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    CInt 12.116 5 ...[the college] deals with a force which It cannot monopolize or confine;... I have no doubt of the force, and for me the only question is, whether the force is inside.
    Bost 12.194 22 That [Christian] piety is a refutation of every skeptical doubt.
    Bost 12.208 6 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city;...
    Milt1 12.260 18 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    Milt1 12.267 8 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    Let 12.398 27 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope, no doubt, that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.

doubt, v. (47)

    AmS 1.82 5 Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age...
    MN 1.221 4 It is the office, I doubt not, of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    MR 1.242 8 ...I doubt not, the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    LT 1.283 25 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    SR 2.58 16 ...let me record day by day my honest thought...and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical...
    Comp 2.115 15 I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    SL 2.153 15 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    Fdsp 2.196 10 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines...
    Hsm1 2.255 11 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade. I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report.
    Cir 2.306 26 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Pt1 3.40 9 Doubt not, O poet, but persist.
    Chr1 3.110 9 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
    Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    PPh 4.43 7 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    SwM 4.130 1 [To Swedenborg] To reason about faith, is to doubt and deny.
    SwM 4.137 22 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.
    ET5 5.74 10 ...I doubt not, the [English] nobles are of both tribes [Norman and Saxon], and the workers of both...
    ET8 5.130 21 [The English] doubt a man's sound judgment if he does not eat with appetite...
    ET11 5.178 7 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    Wsp 6.202 9 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous, which we can arrive at...
    CbW 6.245 6 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.267 10 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
    PI 8.45 3 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    PI 8.74 15 I doubt never the riches of Nature...
    SA 8.102 23 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation; but, though some of us have seen such, I doubt they are all gone.
    QO 8.196 18 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London...
    PC 8.234 11 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    Grts 8.302 21 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Dem1 10.10 20 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Chr2 10.106 18 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature, and 't is an impiety to doubt.
    SovE 10.195 19 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest...
    SovE 10.195 21 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.
    MoL 10.253 2 Does any one doubt between the strength of a thought and that of an institution?
    MoL 10.253 4 Does any one doubt that a good general is better than a park of artillery?
    Plu 10.320 25 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    Thor 10.477 11 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    LS 11.6 10 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus.
    LS 11.20 15 [The Lord's Supper] has been, and is, I doubt not, the occasion of indefinite good;...
    EWI 11.127 9 These considerations [of trade], I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies];...
    EWI 11.146 7 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    EWI 11.146 12 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    FSLN 11.244 20 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it.
    ACiv 11.306 23 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    ACiv 11.310 24 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country...we doubt not, with more pleasure than has been spoken.
    ALin 11.329 7 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    SMC 11.358 10 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    FRep 11.515 26 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations...

doubted, v. (10)

    Nat 1.42 14 Nor can it be doubted that this moral sentiment...is caught by man...
    Nat 1.56 13 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
    DSA 1.146 19 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their doubts know that you have doubted...
    DSA 1.146 24 ...it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts;...
    LT 1.282 19 [The men of other periods] planted their foot strong, and doubted nothing.
    YA 1.371 7 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    CbW 6.267 15 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    LLNE 10.351 16 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
    LVB 11.90 18 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.147 9 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation].

doubtful, adj. (13)

    PNR 4.82 27 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    ET8 5.140 3 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    ET18 5.307 3 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament, when their return by large constituencies would have been doubtful.
    WD 7.163 26 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful.
    WD 7.165 4 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    QO 8.185 10 Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
    PC 8.216 4 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
    PerF 10.86 15 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Chr2 10.114 12 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...not subject to doubtful interpretation...
    Plu 10.294 6 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
    Plu 10.322 2 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    EWI 11.146 5 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    FSLN 11.226 9 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was no longer doubtful...

doubting, adj. (1)

    MN 1.194 6 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...

doubting, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 22 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting,--doubting even that he doubts;...

doubting, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.110 12 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
    MoS 4.159 22 This them is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing,...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting,--doubting even that he doubts;...

doubtless, adv. (8)

    Pt1 3.36 25 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Mrs1 3.127 26 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a homage to men of his stamp.
    ShP 4.203 19 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...
    F 6.18 3 Doubtless in every million there will be an astronomer...
    Boks 7.214 26 ...doubtless [novel-reading] gives some ideal dignity to the day.
    Comc 8.165 8 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Dem1 10.18 27 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    HDC 11.41 16 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...

doubts, n. (15)

    DSA 1.146 19 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their doubts know that you have doubted...
    LE 1.155 6 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    Tran 1.352 4 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems...not so easy to dispose of the doubts and objections that occur to themselves.
    SL 2.132 10 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him, and...his nature shall not yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
    Pol1 3.203 27 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
    NER 3.263 18 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
    PPh 4.73 24 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    MoS 4.173 9 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him. But he says, There are doubts.
    MoS 4.173 12 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
    MoS 4.180 5 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts...
    MoS 4.180 8 ...is not the satisfaction of the doubts essential to all manliness?
    MoS 4.180 21 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    NMW 4.247 17 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.
    Imtl 8.328 21 Don't waste life in doubts and fears;...
    HDC 11.45 27 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...

doubts, v. (16)

    Nat 1.34 5 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to prophesy'
    Chr1 3.111 5 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    MoS 4.159 23 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting,--doubting even that he doubts;...
    Wth 6.123 2 ...the baker doubts he shall never like to drive up to the door;...
    DL 7.128 8 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Elo2 8.116 17 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power...
    PC 8.232 13 ...nobody doubts the power of manners...
    FSLN 11.225 9 Nobody doubts that Daniel Webster could make a good speech.
    FSLN 11.225 10 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South.
    FSLN 11.225 18 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend either of our political parties...
    AKan 11.259 1 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    Milt1 12.258 5 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
    MLit 12.318 15 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism, and doubts and philosophizes.
    MLit 12.334 10 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

dough, n. (5)

    NER 3.252 15 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast, as well as dough...
    Pow 6.60 19 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    Suc 7.291 20 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should...bake his dough;...
    Let 12.395 9 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.

Douglas, James [Duke of Ha (1)

    Bty 6.297 5 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings, of whom Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton...

Douglas, n. (1)

    Aris 10.42 20 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.

dove, n. (1)

    Thor 10.476 15 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...

Dovedale, England, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...

Dover, Straits of, n. (1)

    ACri 12.295 16 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...

doves, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 5 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

doves'-neck, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.179 17 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres...

Dowager, Queen, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 1 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...

dowdiness, n. (1)

    Tran 1.355 20 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

dower, n. (1)

    DL 7.126 19 ...beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.

dowlas, n. (1)

    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.

down, adj. (1)

    MR 1.239 20 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...stoves and down beds...

down, n. (3)

    PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    Thor 10.449 3 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    II 12.82 8 Trust entirely the thought. Lean upon it, it will bear up...society, and systems, like a scrap of down.

down, v. (1)

    Schr 10.286 3 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...will not down at anybody's bidding...

down-beds, n. (1)

    NMW 4.257 24 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not...repose on their down-beds...they deserted [Napoleon].

downfall, n. (4)

    MR 1.243 16 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    Carl 10.496 17 ...in the decay and downfall of all religions, Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    FSLC 11.178 6 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy,/ And their coming triumph hide/ In our downfall, or our joy/...
    FSLN 11.241 1 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...

Downing, Andrew Jackson, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 24 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon.

Downing, Jack [Seba Smith] (2)

    EzRy 10.390 1 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
    EzRy 10.390 5 ...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in the reality of Major Downing.

Downing's, Jack [Seba Smit (1)

    EzRy 10.389 21 At the time when Jack Downing's letters were in every paper, [Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.

downright, adj. (4)

    MR 1.241 25 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    MoS 4.164 12 Downright and plain-dealing...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    Wth 6.114 27 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many effected their purpose and made the experiment, and some became downright ploughmen;...
    FSLC 11.203 14 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...

downrightness, n. (1)

    WSL 12.338 6 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...

downs, n. (6)

    Exp 3.80 17 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...
    ET3 5.39 5 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...
    ET11 5.180 7 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the downs of Devon...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    ET16 5.276 10 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.281 26 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    ET16 5.283 22 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...

down-stream, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.183 19 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom: the sentimentalists went down-stream.

downtrod, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.107 7 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...

downward, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.359 1 Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    CInt 12.127 13 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...

downward, adv. (8)

    AmS 1.85 12 Far too as her splendors shine, system on system shooting like rays, upward, downward...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    DSA 1.122 23 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step so downward, is a step upward.
    Hist 2.32 17 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    MoS 4.185 12 Things seem to tend downward...
    Imtl 8.345 12 ...whilst I find that all the ways of virtuous living lead upward and not downward,-yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    MoL 10.245 15 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury...have turned the eyes downward to the earth...
    FSLC 11.204 27 All the drops of [Webster's] his blood have eyes that look downward.
    Wom 11.413 21 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./

downwards, adv. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 2 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.

down-weigh, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.202 17 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate...or trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

dowry, n. (4)

    Nat 1.20 5 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.
    Prd1 2.231 10 Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman...
    PPo 8.246 2 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul./
    MAng1 12.227 11 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter, who made it so profitable as to furnish a dowry for his two daughters.

dozen, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.5 23 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar, and has dreamed that ride a dozen times;...

dozen, n. (20)

    SL 2.154 18 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    MoS 4.178 27 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET1 5.9 15 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books, and has never more than a dozen at a time in his house.
    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET14 5.260 14 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    F 6.18 20 ...there will, in a dozen millions of Malays...be one or two astronomical skulls.
    Pow 6.76 15 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.78 11 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    Ctr 6.135 17 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with... perhaps with half a dozen personalities that are famous in his neighborhood.
    Ctr 6.136 5 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...
    Wsp 6.234 25 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion...perhaps on a dozen different lines.
    CbW 6.250 15 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
    CbW 6.270 5 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into contradictors...
    OA 7.326 5 ...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one or a dozen new performances.
    Insp 8.271 26 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Thor 10.461 25 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    FRep 11.521 8 ...we can all count the few cases-half a dozen in our time- when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    PLT 12.32 15 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen.

Dr. Bentley's Club, London (1)

    Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...

draft, n. (4)

    Elo2 8.116 6 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war, at the occasion of a new draft.
    Elo2 8.116 10 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent... went at the first draft, or the second...
    SMC 11.366 17 In August, 1862...when it was becoming difficult to meet the draft...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
    MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

drag, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.194 26 ...the drag is never taken from the wheel.
    ET18 5.305 12 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...
    ET18 5.305 16 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag...
    F 6.47 24 To offset the drag of temperament and race...learn this lesson...
    FSLN 11.230 27 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure, and they threw themselves on the extreme conservatism, as a drag on the wheel...

drag, v. (13)

    MR 1.250 7 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is...not yet harnessed in the team of society to drag with us all in the ruts of custom, I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    SR 2.57 2 Why drag about this corpse of your memory...
    SL 2.136 16 ...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole of Christendom?
    SwM 4.97 22 Must the highest good drag after it a quality which neutralizes and discredits it?
    Pow 6.70 12 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Ctr 6.148 14 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to...drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the year.
    Res 8.145 10 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it.
    Chr2 10.104 2 The populace drag down the gods to their own level...
    SlHr 10.439 3 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days through the dishonors of the long defeat...
    LVB 11.91 21 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
    JBB 11.269 21 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
    ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag.
    ACri 12.291 9 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag.

dragged, v. (13)

    Nat 1.21 9 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    ET9 5.152 9 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison;...
    ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary countries...
    Pow 6.56 2 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.
    Pow 6.72 12 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand, dragged them to their duty...
    Wth 6.94 4 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Ctr 6.153 13 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    Wsp 6.205 11 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths, which...are speedily dragged down into a savage interpretation.
    DL 7.123 7 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground...
    PPo 8.242 16 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem, who seized him by the girdle and dragged him from his horse.
    Aris 10.63 10 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...
    FSLN 11.229 5 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.

dragging, v. (5)

    Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it...
    F 6.22 13 Man is...a dragging together of the poles of the Universe.
    Wth 6.86 20 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    PerF 10.81 1 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    LLNE 10.337 13 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show.

draggle-tail, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.392 5 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.

dragon, n. (5)

    ET8 5.134 23 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET10 5.168 18 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    F 6.30 25 Every brave youth is in training to ride and rule this dragon.
    F 6.38 16 Every creature, wren or dragon, shall make its own lair.
    Supl 10.175 4 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw a winged dragon...

dragon-ridden, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.317 26 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...

dragons, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.36 3 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
    SwM 4.135 22 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...dragons crowned and horned...
    Ctr 6.136 18 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like... dragons of wrath;...
    Cour 7.256 24 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called...dragons...
    Dem1 10.14 4 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as sacred...
    MMEm 10.423 5 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons.
    FRep 11.539 14 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

dragon's, n. (2)

    Comp 2.105 27 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail...
    Comp 2.107 6 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...

dragoon, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.186 1 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon or a gingerbread-dog...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Art2 7.55 13 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.

dragoons, n. (1)

    ET4 5.60 25 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.

drags, v. (4)

    ET15 5.261 11 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
    WD 7.159 17 [Steam]...drags away a mountain.
    PI 8.54 20 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    PI 8.54 21 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags.

drain, v. (6)

    AmS 1.108 11 ...we drain all cisterns...
    YA 1.368 20 The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...
    Ill 6.320 23 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Farm 7.150 15 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land...
    Farm 7.151 17 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    CL 12.139 4 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts, stock its gardens, drain its bogs...we were better patriots and happier men.

drainage, n. (5)

    ET11 5.189 7 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...drainage...
    F 6.32 24 ...right drainage destroys typhus.
    F 6.33 1 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...
    Farm 7.150 4 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know...
    Farm 7.151 15 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear; they need drainage, which he cannot attempt.

drained, v. (4)

    ET5 5.95 16 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
    ET5 5.95 22 In due course, all England will be drained...
    CbW 6.265 2 ...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained.
    HDC 11.85 1 ...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.

draining, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.210 4 Is it not time to do something besides ditching and draining...

draining, v. (1)

    ET5 5.83 25 [The English] apply themselves to agriculture, to draining...

drains, v. (1)

    FRep 11.542 21 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet, drains swamps...

Drake, Francis, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of... Bracton, Camden, Drake...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

dram, n. (1)

    PPo 8.240 7 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram...

Drama, Early, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 11 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

drama, n. (14)

    Hist 2.14 24 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy;...
    SL 2.165 15 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...
    Mrs1 3.120 25 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book. A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...
    ShP 4.195 16 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.
    ShP 4.201 16 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.207 23 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
    GoW 4.287 23 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    Boks 7.218 2 The Greek fables...the English drama of Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PI 8.44 25 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...
    QO 8.193 17 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures, or drama...on us.
    Chr2 10.102 7 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth.
    WSL 12.346 3 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.

Drama, n. (2)

    ShP 4.211 21 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    LLNE 10.362 21 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or Music...

Drama of the Divine Judgmen (1)

    LLNE 10.336 6 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...

dramas, n. (6)

    Exp 3.80 15 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    ShP 4.209 16 What trait of his private mind has [Shakespeare] hidden in his dramas?
    ShP 4.214 15 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
    GoW 4.277 16 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    II 12.88 11 The old Greek was respectable and we are not yet able to forget his dramas,-who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Bost 12.204 12 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...

dramatic, adj. (14)

    AmS 1.91 7 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    Hist 2.33 25 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    ShP 4.191 16 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
    ShP 4.195 2 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.210 11 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ShP 4.210 13 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    NMW 4.252 10 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    Art2 7.40 7 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Elo2 8.131 20 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis...
    MoL 10.244 15 Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment of the people [in the Middle Ages].
    Thor 10.457 20 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...and was ever running into dramatic situations from this cause.
    FRep 11.512 10 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
    WSL 12.348 13 [Landor] is not epic or dramatic...

dramatically, adv. (1)

    II 12.84 14 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.

dramatist, n. (1)

    ShP 4.210 19 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider...how good a dramatist he was...

dramatists, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 1 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility...

dramatizing, adj. (1)

    QO 8.196 22 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times, but never works as well under his own name. This is a sort of dramatizing talent;...

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